Special Report: World Tackles Swine Flu
MEXICO CITY, April 28 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday it would send experts to Mexico this week to investigate whether the new strain of A/H1N1 swine flu had a direct connection to pigs.
At present, "the transmission seems to be occurring solely from humans to humans and there has been no confirmed evidence so far that the new strain of H1N1 influenza virus was passed to humans directly form pigs." FAO said in a statement.
The team from FAO's crisis management centre - Animal Health (CMC-AH) would firstly verify whether the virus entered humans directly from pigs, said FAO's chief veterinary officer Joseph Domenech.
"There is no evidence of a threat to the food chain," he said.
According to Mexican health ministry, the flu outbreak has killed as many as 159 people in Mexico.
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